Paxo on Chatroulette
Thank Jehovah that the Web is still capable of generating the kind of super-retarded moral panic and outrage that characterised Newsnight’s piece on Chatr...
What I’m hoping for from SXSW
I’ve been to loads of conferences over the years. Most of them have left me feeling ‘whelmed’ at best and at most other times frustrated.
I blogged la...
SXSW countdown: one week
And lo, ready to roll a full week before we take off for Texas, here it is — our Twitter-powered SXSW people-tracker:
For those who haven’t been ...
A call to arms. Make way for ‘the builders’.
Rishad Tobaccowala’s blog post at Reinventing, and his speech at the American Association of Ad Agencies Transformation conference, are both inc...
Trying to describe what we do. It’s complicated.
We’ve found it really challenging to boil down what we do into one of those little paragraphs much beloved of professional services companies – the so-cal...
Gnawing on the bones of Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix has a ‘new album’ out. I hate it and I haven’t even heard it yet.
I’m a lifelong Hendrix fan. Ever since I heard his interpretation ...
Introducing Made by Many’s Posterous
At Made by Many, we love playing with – or at least trying out – a lot of the new apps and sites that make their appearance on the web. Now admittedl...
I love words: manopause, faffage, hellacious
I learned to read a long time ago, but I can still remember the sheer amazingness of the discovery — like I’d found the keys to the universe and all of a ...
Content design with cojones
Or so I tweeted whilst watching the recent Apple keynote. A month later and I don’t think I could have been more wrong.
Immediately after the iPa...
Can I have my opinion back, please?
I seem to be one of a dwindling number of people who believe that opinions are among the most valuable commodities we have. Somehow, we’ve allowed the old...
Online > offline: we still love paper goods
Last Tuesday night, I went to the preview for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition (aka the Oscars of the design world) at the Design Museum ...
Discrepancy of scale: Ron Mueck
Recently while on holidays in Melbourne, I went to see an exhibition in The National Gallery of Victoria by hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck. Having heard ...
SXSW countdown: two weeks, one day
We’re still keen to open up our creative process by sharing the evolution of our SXSW project.
As mentioned last week, it’s a Twitter-powered executio...
Going to SXSW? Come for a drink first
We’re inviting all SXSW-bound Londoners for a drink on Monday 8 March.
Freelancers, agency folk, designers, planners, developers and general rabb...
The web is a truth machine
I can’t remember where I read this, or who wrote it, but I am being stalked by this phrase:
“The Web amplifies the truth about a brand”
For ...
How would a robot read a novel?
Last week, I went to a rather interesting talk at the LSE titled ‘How Would a Robot Read a Novel?’. I was introduced to a software, primarily used in...
SXSW countdown: three weeks, two days
Plans are still afoot — and are growing more evolved by the day — for our big trip Southwest.
As mentioned the other week, we’re working on a little p...
Lurpak’s Bake Club
I’m really enjoying the various incarnations of Weiden + Kennedy’s Lurpak campaign recently.
As well as a few nice TVCs, billboards and some...